Category: Sustaining Liberty

The United States Is NOT a Democracy

4/2/2022

...and that is a very good thing

The Rise of The Urban Progressives
Roughly half of the US population now lives in urban areas that occupy only 3-4% of the land area. In fact, about 1/2 of the population resides in only 146 counties, as illustrated in the following map.

A map of the counties that voted for Joe Biden in 2020 (not shown) is almost identical, highlighting the growing divide between Progressive Urban 'Elites' and the rest of the (deplorable) nation.

It should not be surprising that urban dwellers tend to embrace socialism. They are utterly dependent on the urban infrastructure they occupy and have no concept of self sufficiency. The city provides their water and takes away their sewage and trash. They need an elevator to get to their high-rise apartment and nothing works if the power goes out. Though they rant about Climate Change they really don't give a shit about where the electricity that powers their existence magically comes from.

They rely on society to provide a bit of shared outdoor space (i.e. public parks). They claim to be 'environmentalists' but their entire environment, as far as the eye can see, is nothing more than urban infrastructure.. concrete, asphalt, glass and steel.

They can't grow their own food and have no idea where it really comes from. They depend on a massive police force to protect them from their 'neighbors'.

Their incompetent government is much less frightening then the gang-infested environment they voted for so they just don't grasp the need for the 2nd Amendment.

They are willing socialists.

As the percentage of people living in Progressive Urban enclaves has grown the Progressives seem to be increasingly upset that the United States is a Constitutional Republic, specifically created with checks and balances which prevent them from controlling all our lives by mob rule.

The Undemocratic Senate
In particular, they despise the existence of the US Senate, which gives every state equal representation, regardless of population (i.e. two Senators per state). A quote:
“We should keep in mind that the original one-state, two-senators rule was written and ratified by property-owning white men, almost half of whom owned slaves…”

Please read the link... I'm not making this up. slcc.pressbooks.pub/attenuateddemocracy/chapter/chapter-24/

Demographics
In 2016, half of the US population lived in just 9 states (coincidentally, states with large urban populations). This means that half the population only gets 18 Senators, while the other half gets 82.

Of course our Constitution was designed this way from the very beginning to protect rural populations and the autonomy of the individual states but it REALLY makes Progressives angry now that they have a plurality (or perhaps a slight majority).

Sidebar - Claims by Democrats that this is some new situation are total bullshit. In 1770 the population of the original 13 States (colonies at that time) was about 2,090,619 and just four states had roughly 53% of the population (Virginia, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Maryland). www.yttwebzine.com/yesterday/2013/10/28/75757/population_13_colonies_chart

Why Is This Important??
You might be wondering why I'm writing about this... why is it important? Well, I'm glad you asked.

There are two demographic forces at work that we need to take advantage of.

Urban population is increasing and only 8 states will posses 1/2 the population within 15-20 years. In other words, 1/2 of the population will have only 16 guaranteed Senators.
Conservatives are abandoning Progressive Urban areas, often moving to more conservative states where their votes actually count.

These forces may allow Conservatives, Constitutionalists and Libertarians to gain and maintain control over the Senate.

There is no guarantee... Progressive Urban Socialists (PUS) and the Globalist Billionaires have deep pockets and control the media. They will do everything in their power to buy Senate seats as they did in Georgia in 2020.

Please understand, control of the Senate does not in any way mean that we can (or should) impose our values over the Progressives... they can continue to do whatever the hell they want in their states. It merely means that we can decide what's important to us in our states (as our Constitution was brilliantly designed).

As long as 'traditionalists' control the Senate, the Great Reset and the New World Order will be frustrated in the United States (though the Globalists do have great power through the Central Banks and through self-inflicted Biden-inflation... a topic for another post).

This year we have the opportunity to take back the House and change the narrative. Recall that the House is (and was designed to be) the "Democratic" chamber that represents the populist majority. If we take the House then we take the "democratic" high ground.

Then the Progressives will be screaming and crying that they need the Senate, the filibuster and the Courts to protect them from the ignorant, deplorable majority... their two-faced hypocrisy will be completely exposed.

'End of Line' - MCP

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The Manufactured Elites - The Tip of The Socialist Spear

3/18/2022

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The Elites
The first topic in The Changing World Order considers the 'Elites" of human society.

Of course, there are a few people in every generation who are genuinely elite. Individuals with exceptional insight and imagination. Aristotle and da Vinci come to mind. Among the true elites are authors, philosophers and visionaries who push humanity positively forward. Perhaps Elon Musk is a genuine "Elite".... a true visionary.

Today, we have a vast class of artificial 'elites' who are used by the rich and powerful to influence the attitudes of the 'masses'.

I know this is a long segment, but it's mostly pictures so please read-on.

The Changing World Order
The power of the elites seems to go through a recurring cycle (noted in several books such as The Fourth Turning and The Changing World Order):

Great supportive influence... Elites celebrating the nation, its prosperity and its achievements
Muted/low influence ... Elites enter an era of individual thought, debate and changing attitudes
Great negative influence.... Elites tearing down the nation and destroying its heritage
Chaos and collapse... or rebirth

It should be fairly obvious that The Media is the mechanism that gives the Elites a voice and a vehicle for reaching millions. The Media has evolved over time... theater, oratory, newspapers, radio, TV, social media... However, it is universally true that those who control the media control the narrative.

The Elites Are Fake Gods
When you see all the 'elites' pontificating on mainstream media you might be tempted to think that they must be right because they are The Elites. Well you would be wrong.

The Boogeymen of Doom are manufactured by special interests seeking power and the 'elites' of today are manufactured to promote the boogeymen.

The WEF and the billionaires behind the WEF are a perfect example You can buy a lot of 'elite' experts when you have billion$$ to spend.

Sidebar - The WEF and the UN are not the only groups manufacturing boogeymen. But the WEF openly brags about their agenda to destroy the United States and Capitalism... so I use them as a concrete example.

I will provide just a couple of examples so you understand where this modern day priesthood derives its power. And it is NOT from knowledge, truth or God.

The WEF Young Global Leaders - The Tip of the Socialist Spear
The WEF has a program to indoctrinate, network and finance the careers of young globalists. They have well over 1,000 'alumni' in their program... many of whom have been boosted to positions of great power.

Don't take my word for it... here's what Klaus Schwab said in 2017, as he publicly bragged about infiltrating governments around the world.

He has a heavy accent so here is the transcript.

"There is this notion to integrate young leaders as part of the World Economic Forum for many years. I mentioned names like Mrs. Merkel, even Vladimir Putin, and so on. They all have been Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum.

We are very proud of the young generation, like Prime Minister Trudeau, president of Argentina, and so on. We penetrate the cabinets. Yesterday, I was at a reception for Prime Minister Trudeau, and I know half of his cabinet—more than half of his cabinet are actually Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum.

Right now, that’s true in Argentina, too. It’s true in Argentina, and it’s true in France now. I mean with the president, with the young global leader. But what is important for me is those Young Global Leaders have an opportunity to come here, and we have established a course now, for several years."

I looked at over 1,000 WEF bios to cherry pick the best-of-the-best of recent additions to the WEF. As Herr Schwab points out, hundreds of world leaders have been indoctrinated into the WEF. This is just a small sample of Prime Ministers, Governors, Senators and Cabinet members bought by the WEF.

These are people who have the power and authority to create lock-downs, issue executive orders and to violate their citizen's civil rights. They are people who have the power to provide government grants (at the taxpayer's expense) to 'worthy causes'.

Here's a link to the WEF so you can see vast list of indoctrinated leaders for yourselves:
www.younggloballeaders.org/community?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=&status=alumni&class_year=&sector=&region=#results

Buying politicians and buying media takes lots of money. There is a long list of Billionaires and media moguls in the WEF roster.

Please recall that the #1 goal of the WEF is that YOU will own nothing (by 2030). Blackrock is buying private homes and turning them into rentals at an unprecedented rate. They outbid private citizens and intentionally inflate the cost of housing. I wonder how that strategy evolved and how they get their massive financing... ??

At this point, there is so much money at stake it is impossible to determine if the WEF manipulates Blackrock or if Blackrock 'owns' the WEF. In either case, Blackrock is heavily involved with the WEF.

noqreport.com/2021/06/11/yes-blackrocks-home-buying-spree-should-concern-you/

The Tip of The Iceberg
What I've shown here is just the tip of the iceberg. The UN, the WEF, Progressive Foundations (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation) and Billionaires (like Bezos, Zuckerberg and Soros) fund thousands of professors (through university endowments), climate activists, anti-American socialists and an endless parade of other 'activists' who sow the divisive seeds of victim-hood in society.

The 'Creatives', the 'Expert Class' and the 'Elites' are manufactured in massive numbers and they cannot be trusted. They are the 'useful idiots' of the 21st century.

In the next post I'll give an example how fringe activists are funded and, thus, elevated to the ranks of the 'Elites'.

DON'T FOLLOW THE ELITES - THINK FOR YOURSELVES.

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Sustaining Liberty - The Changing World Order

3/16/2022

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I have been reading a lot about the rise of socialism and predictions of a crisis that might herald the decline of America (as we know it). Some of the sources include the following books and essays (in chronological order by publication date): Please note, I'm listing the books to give credit to the original authors for their work. I'll provide links to the books at the end of this post.

The Future in America A Search After Realities - H.G. Wells 1906
The Road to Serfdom – F.A. Hayek 1944
Rules For Radicals - Saul Alinsky 1971
The Fate of Empires and Search For Survival - Sir John Glubb 1976
The Fourth Turning – William Straus and Neil Howe 1997
The Rise of the Creative Class - Richard Florida 2002
The Great Reset – Richard Florida 2011
The Changing World Order – Ray Dalio 2021
The Next Civil War Dispatches from the American Future - Stephen Marche 2022

To be honest, they fall into three seemingly unrelated categories:

Elitism
The conflict between individual liberties vs supremacy of the 'state' (which requires elitism)
The rise and decline of great nations

These topics are intertwined. The elites of today may scream for 'democracy' while they cancel and shit upon anyone who defies their 'moral imperative' or disagree with their 'intellectual superiority'.

These elites destroy individual liberty by crushing critical thinking, open debate and self determination. They embrace socialist control because they believe they are smarter and more humanitarian than the working people they pretend to care about.

Finally, there are great social and economic cycles that contribute to the rise and decline of nations.

Those with the power to influence public attitude and belief (i.e the media and the elites) can either help sustain greatness or they can accelerate decline.

It occurs to me that the decline of an oppressive regime can increase individual freedom (consider the collapse of the Soviet Union). BUT, the decline of America will irrevocably lead to global serfdom.

As I mentioned in "Duck and Cover", the media and elites have always manipulated our attitudes. However, in the previous cycle, the elites celebrated American exceptionalism, hard work, prosperity and a growing middle class.

The current big cycle points to American decline... we have massive debt which contributes to raging inflation. Even worse, we have replaced the concept of working to earn a living with the expectation of welfare entitlements. The elites of today are tearing us down.

We are in a battle where liberty and self-determination are at stake. AND the current 'elites' are dedicated to accelerating the decline and end of America. The big questions are these....

Can we sustain and preserve our liberties if American itself falters?
Can we prevent American decline while being reduced to a divisive nation of victims by the 'elites' ?
Can we discredit the 'elites' and restore belief in America?

I will be writing about these questions and the authors who have influenced my thinking in future posts. Here are links to the books for your reading enjoyment.

In the next post I'll talk about how the current batch of 'Elites' came to be. It seems that the socialist cancer always starts in Europe... and this cycle is no exception.

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Progressive Elitism - The Constitution Is TRASH

3/4/2022

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This almost deserves to be in Clown World, but it isn't funny.

In a recent appearance on The View, elitist and frequent MSNBC contributor Elie Mystal claimed that the Constitution is TRASH ... because it was written by white colonists. "They didn't ask anybody who looked like me what I thought about the Constitution" I am not convinced. It appears to me that several of the Founders had double chins and bad hair.

You and I may not take this clown seriously but he gets a big audience and the comments on the Twit feed are mostly favorable. Mostly saying what a shit country this is.

Friends, this is what we must fight against... wealthy, pampered a$$holes who make their living disparaging the country that gives them prosperity, safety and freedom.

Click the Pic, It will make you Sick. (That rhymes)

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Sustaining Liberty - A Lesson From the Ukraine

2/26/2022

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The Second Amendment
The situation in Ukraine reminds me why the 2nd Amendment is a crucial element for sustaining liberty and freedom.

Yesterday, the Ukrainian government passed a law granting civilians the right to carry guns (kinda late) and began handing out weapons to civilian volunteers. Reports I've seen state they had between 10,000 to 15,000 weapons to distribute.

By comparison, it is estimated that there are over 600 MILLION civilian-owned firearms in America and at least 18 MILLION Modern Sporting Rifles (MSR).

On the left, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert are members of the United States House who have been gun owners for much of their adult lives. On the right, Kira Rudik is a Member of the Ukrainian Parliament who has never fired a weapon but who has now vowed to stay and fight. "each of us must take up arms and do his duty. Not because there are no men around, but because we can. And we will,”

The population of Ukraine is about 43 Million so 15k - 20k rifles won't make much difference. But maybe this will make people around the world understand that self-defense is both a right and an obligation.

I hope we will never see a scene like this in America.... hundreds of women and teenagers turning out to make primitive explosives because they lack weapons. I hope we never allow ourselves to be so dis-armed. (Though I learned that crushed Styrofoam makes a better Molotov).

I hope we are never in a situation where we are handing outdated weapons and a box of ammo to untrained men.

I hope we never expect our grandmothers to defend us.

I hope America can find its soul and restore our traditional values.

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Climate Deception and the End of Freedom

2/9/2022

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They Want All Your Stuff
I hope this post makes you angry! Very, Very Angry Indeed!

I want to remind you that Climate Change is but one of the Boogeymen of Doom that the globalists are using to scare us into submission. However, it has enormous financial backing and prestige so there's a lot riding on its coattails.

I make no apology for calling Climate Change an intentional deception since it has been going on for 60+ years. During this time, disaster is always 10-20 years away and not a single prediction has come true. They just keep moving the goal posts so they can frighten a new generation.

In fact, no scientist can fail that many times with a straight face. Climate Change is a hoax specifically intended to destroy capitalism, America and Prosperity itself.

The "Progressives" want all your freedoms and all your stuff... and our current government is helping them along.

I’m not making this up. I quote from a Progressive source:
“If we want to stand a chance of building socialism… environmentalists must also become eco-socialists. The dynamics that drive climate change are core to capitalism. Serious action on climate change will necessarily amount to the first steps of a program to end capitalism.”

The author goes on to say that socialism will indeed make us poor... but we don't need stuff anyway.
"a chance to build a more humane system. This system will be materially poorer than today’s society. But this is not ‘eco-austerity’. Much of the energy we use today is in producing goods that we do not need, that do not fulfill our needs." Of course the Socialist Elites get to decide what we really need. Click the pic to read the article.

Please note this is NOT some fringe conspiracy theory. In 2017, Christiana Figueres, the UN co-chair of the IPCC expressed the same sentiment. She claimed there were only 3 years left to save our planet!   That was 5 years ago.

She went on to say:
“Climate policy has almost nothing to do anymore with protecting the environment. The next world climate summit in Cancun is actually an economy summit during which distribution of the world's resources will be negotiated.”   https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/heres-what-climate-change-pushing-elites-are-really-after

Why does a UN turd believe that the US must negotiate the distribution of our resources and wealth with the UN???

Dear Christiana, I did not vote for you. Actually, no one voted for you. If you would like to negotiate please stop by my home with some of your UN blue-helmet peace keepers and we can discuss your demands. Please bring one of those blue armored personnel carriers (APC), I'd really like to have one as a souvenir.

The End of Private Property
Redistribution of resources is not enough to satisfy the Progressive 'elites'. We need to just rip up the laws that protect property:
"This is where a serious fight against climate change that tries to get to the root of the problem of capitalism is going to clash head-on with our political and legal system…. Property is 9/10th of the law, as the saying goes, Of course if you see climate change from a revolutionary perspective then you rip up those capitalist laws that are protecting the ill-gotten gains of the rich who are plundering our natural environment."

The author goes on to justify confiscating everything we own for the good of society:
"Likewise with the housing crisis, we need to just seize the homes of the rich and turn them into social housing to end homelessness and no doubt deal with the massive climate refugee crisis coming our way." Keep in mind, if you have a home with flush toilets and heat and electricity then YOU are among the world's rich. Click the Pic..

Conclusion
Progressive Urban Socialists (PUSs) have been elevated to an 'elite' class by billionaires, fading monarchs and UN bureaucrats. They are laying the groundwork to destroy our economy and reduce us all to serfdom.

Climate Change is nothing more than a boogeyman they are using to convince people to accept voluntary slavery in a Brave New World... and The Green New Deal is the greatest, most audacious bank heist in history.

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Standing For Freedom

2/3/2022

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Freedom Convoy
The Canadian Trucker Freedom Convoy has been in the news for the past several days and Progressive Elites are losing their minds. More importantly, the Progressives are losing their credibility, influence and control.

Huge numbers of Canadian citizens across the country have turned out to protest the jab mandates and jab shutdowns imposed by a fascist government. Why am I not surprised that the Socialist Equality Party is calling this grassroots protest a "breakdown of Canadian democracy".

"the Freedom Convoy is led by far-right and outright fascist elements," ... "encamped menacingly outside the national parliament"

I'm very confused.... people peacefully protesting against a fascist government are fascist?? How does that work?? Does this look like a breakdown in democracy??

My Progressive-Socialist-Hypocrite-Alarm is ringing. (You can read the Socialist rant by clicking on the image).

Polish Women Are Awesome
Having spent most of my life in Chicago, I have always known that Polish women are super awesome. But these ladies from Toronto have raised the bar even higher. They traveled 280 miles from Toronto and brought hundreds of pounds of polish sausage, bread and pastries to feed hungry truckers.

Here is their reason. "We come from [a] communist country, and we came here because we didn’t want to have oppression. We wanted to live in the free country, and for the last two years, we’re living like prisoners."

Watch the video, my friends, it will make you smile. Oh, and read the comments... it will make you smile even more.

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Sustaining Liberty - The Great Reset

1/25/2022

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The World Economic Forum
In the previous post I mentioned that The Great Reset is NOT a conspiracy theory; it is right out in the open. The World Economic Forum (WEF), headed by Klaus Schwab, has been working to undermine capitalism and the United States for 50 years. They have recently outlined their goals for the year 2030 in a short video.

The WEF is composed of global puppet-masters; billionaires, monarchs and UN bureaucrats. They have created the progressive Creative/Elite class to promote their views (I'll write more about this in a future post).

Here are their 8 primary goals for 2030:

Destroy private ownership so you will own nothing and be happy while the puppet masters are given all wealth and power
End America as a superpower and the dominant economy. The world will be “equitably” ruled by an international consortium appointed by the benevolent WEF
3D printing of human organs (this has nothing to do with the WEF)
No more meat... you'll eat bugs instead. (more on this in a future post) neoterra.us/blog/self-inflicted-scarcity-no-more-meat
Facilitate and even glamorize mass migrations of unskilled, uneducated “refuges” to overwhelm Western culture and Industrial societies. Because of the Climate Change boogeyman
Make energy far more expensive (restricting supply, introducing a carbon tax) to reduce your standard of living. And they will use Climate Change Hysteria to frighten you into acceptance
Exploration of Mars (this has nothing to do with the WEF)
Western values pushed to the breaking point.

This is not some right-wing conspiracy theory.

I don't know if the COVID pandemic was engineered, but here is a quote from Herr Schwab celebrating the pandemic. Please note this is directly from the World Economic Forum website. "The pandemic represents a rare but narrow window of opportunity to reflect, reimagine, and reset our world"

Many other anti-American globalists agree. Prince Charles and Antonia Guterres (head of the UN) refer to the pandemic as a "Golden Opportunity".

In this post, let's consider Goal #1. I will discuss most of the other goals in future posts.

The End of Private Property
A cornerstone of the Great Reset is that (by 2030) you will own nothing and you will be happy. The first step on this journey to poverty is Dematerialization.

Dematerialization
A precursor to ‘owning nothing’ is the growing push toward Dematerialization (there are now several scholarly books on the subject and it is the foundation of the movement for Universal Basic Income - UBI). As an aside, this concept was previously known as minimalist… but dematerialization sounds cool and is more extreme.

Dematerialization, does not state that private property should be eliminated. It states that you can be happy with a lot less. For example:

You don’t need an SLR camera because you should be happy with your cell-cam.
You don’t need a big-screen TV because you should be happy watching movies on your phone.
You don’t need a car because you have Uber
You don’t need a kitchen because cooking is a chore

This is a seductive argument because most of us have way more stuff than we really need. But it is a slippery slope with nefarious intent.

The Nomad Life
There is no doubt that a minimalist lifestyle can be rich and enjoyable. There are many people who have embraced the Nomad Life (tradeMark) and are traveling and living in motor homes or travel trailers.

They are enjoying life in a minimal amount of space.   A retired couple (i.e. no rug rats) can be very comfortable in a well designed coach that is no more than 300-350 square feet. And that includes a small, but functional kitchen.

300 square feet leaves no room for any superfluous crap. No giant cactus-shaped margarita glasses, no silly nick-nacks, no collection of hard-cover books. Everything must be boiled down to what is really necessary. It takes discipline.

Note: Minimalism is completely separate from any discussion of self-sufficiency, which is quite the opposite… it takes a lot of stuff to be self-sufficient.

One other observation on Nomad Life: It is enjoyable because of mobility and because most time is spent outdoors. It is an adventure. Weather and climate are critical… spending winter in Minnesota in 300 square feet would not end well.

In short, my theory is that compatible adults can enjoy life with minimal property when they have maximal freedom. But keep in mind, the Nomad Life is voluntary… it is a choice; not a mandate from the World Economic Forum.

Own Nothing and Be Happy
The Great Reset wants to convince you (or coerce you) to take the next step beyond dematerialization. They want you to believe you will be better off and happier if you own absolutely nothing. No house, no car, no furniture, no pots n’ pans, not even an apartment or your clothes (and definitely no motor home).

Everything will be provided to you by the government or by expert digital subscription services (like Amazon) when you need it.   Consequently, private ownership can be abolished for the good of society and you will be happy.

You don’t need a wasteful private home because you will have a Residential Subscription Service. This concept is a cross between a studio compartment complex and a hotel. Since you don’t own anything you can crash in a different ‘unit’ every night. Tonight in Naperville, tomorrow a different unit in Naperville because you were out late, a couple of nights in St. Charles and the weekend in Madison for the beer festival. And don’t worry about packing because you don’t own any clothes.

You clearly don’t need any furniture (or mementos or personal shit) because you don’t have a permanent residence to keep it. You will be very happy with whatever furnishings your compartment has provided for you.

You don’t own any clothes because your Trendy Fashion Expert Service has fresh clothes selected for you and delivered to your compartment du jour every morning before you wake up. You toss yesterday’s clothes into the recycling chute and a Servant Class beta will collect them, and some Working Class epsilon will launder and re-package. Someone else will get those cloths tomorrow. Keep in mind that the underwear you have today was on someone else’s ass yesterday…. But you will be happy.

You don’t need a washer or dryer (or a laundry room) because you don’t own any clothes.

You don’t need a car because you use public transportation.

I could go on and on. There are entire books written on how wonderful it will be in the world of Universal Basic Income and Subscription possessions. I refer to these authors as the Cornucopians. (tradeMark)

But Only the Elites Will be Happy
But their narrative is dishonest because it is always told from the perspective of the privileged Creative Expert class. It is never told from the perspective of the Worker Class. When you view the glowing narrative you imagine your life living in luxury with fresh new stuff every day…   but that won’t be true for 95%

When you listen to the TED talk linked below you can only imagine life as a highly compensated Creative living an exciting, important life, traveling to conferences and vacationing in the Alps. What about all the regular people trapped in mundane jobs so she can be a carefree TED Talker??

If you start out in the deplorable Worker class (at the bottom of the social stack) then you aren’t flying to Brussels, weekending in Barcelona and returning to San Fran for a book (Kindle) signing. Nope, you are a Brave New World janitor and take public transportation to the same job in the same place every single day (But you will be happy).

Since you own nothing you have almost zero ability to take any individual initiative. You have almost zero ability to invest in your own ideas (investment is evil). There are a few pursuits that don’t require tools or equipment or financial investment: you could write poetry or make digital art (like Hunter Biden). Perhaps you could become a musician (but you’ll have to lease your drum set from the government).

In addition to the disingenuous narrative there are three fatal flaws in their theory.

Although the Great Reset pretends to do away with private ownership that only applies to you. Jeff Bezos will own the Amazon Clothing Subscription service, Bill Gates will own the farms and machinery, BlackRock will own the Residential Subscription Service.. etc. Billionaires and Bureaucrats will own and control everything… and you will be happy.
Though you might not own anything, you are still consuming things. 100 miles on an Uber is the same energy and the same wear-and-tear as 100 miles on a private car. The only thing that’s actually being saved is a parking space. You may not own any furniture but you are still consuming it (have you ever seen the condition of furniture or carpeting in a hotel room that’s more than 5 years old?). In other words, there is no increase in prosperity.. there is only redistribution.
Many people on Terra (aside from elite urban progressives) actually need to own things and actually need to have private space for those things. Carpenters, plumbers, electricians and other trades actually need tools and supplies and vehicles to transport them. Farmers need land, machinery and seed (unless the socialist progressives round them up and put them in happy communes).

Sustaining Liberty - Progressive Elitism

1/25/2022

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Progressive Elitism and The Great Reset

Historically, the first step toward socialistic tyranny is to create division and hatred among your own people. Billionaires and bureaucrats aren’t credible so they need to elevate a group of Elites to champion their cause. Democrat “Intellectuals” have been working to demonize working people in general and conservatives in particular for more than a generation.

As an example, The New Urban Crisis is a book I read a couple of years ago by Richard Florida, a real gem of a progressive ‘scholar’. I have to make a couple of points from this book to set the stage for future reports.

Mr. Florida correctly acknowledges that the cities were miserable (for most people) in the 50’s – 70’s. But he blames it on ‘white flight’ to the suburbs, which is totally backwards from actual, historical cause and effect. The cities did not became dung-heaps because of flight to the suburbs. People left for the suburbs because cities were already crowded, miserable and de-humanizing.
Sorry Mr. Florida but you lost all credibility in the first 50 pages.

The second (and more important) aspect of his Progressive philosophy is the Liberal division of humanity into three social classes. I’m not making this up. His previous book was titled “The Rise of the Creative Class” and it is something right out of Brave New World. His philosophy would make Hitler, Stalin and Mao Zedong proud.

The three classes are… drum roll please…

The Creative Class – these are the Brave-New-World Alphas. The urban elite who are the pinnacle of humanity and do everything amazing and worthwhile. They are utterly deserving of a vibrant urban life. Artists, musicians, actors, fashion designers, celebrities, billionaires (by whatever means), some scientists/engineers and, of course, scholarly thinkers like Mr. Florida himself.
The Servant Class – There are two categories of Brave-New-World Betas.
- Beta-A - Those who work under the direction of the Creatives to accomplish Creative brilliance (like coordinators, engineers, highly trained technical workers, administrators and bureaucrats). They get to dress well, live in a decent compartment and may even get to socialize with the Elites (if they are attractive enough).
- Beta-B - Those who sustain the vibrant urban environment the Creatives so rightly deserve (like chefs, waiters, police, and Uber drivers). They are necessary but don’t get to socialize with the Creatives.
The Working Class - These are the Deltas and Epsilons. Those who live in the rural fly-over states or have the most menial jobs in the vibrant cities. We are the drones who produce everything. We must be grateful and appreciative because we would have no meaningful existence at all if it weren’t for the amazing urban Creatives. Producing mere things (like food, houses, furniture, clothing, cars) doesn’t require any intelligence. You see, we would have no purpose or meaning in our sad little lives if it weren’t for Ellen DeGeneres, Elton John and Richard Florida. We might not exist at all if it were not for the Creatives in the Emerald City.

Elitism Breeds Contempt
You may think Mr. Florida’s view is just extreme or isolated academic BS but it is at the very cornerstone of current liberal righteousness. In the following link, David Brooks of the NY Times (a bastion of unbiased truth) confirms the rise of a Progressive aristocracy when he states “A lot of people in the expert class live in blue cities who are thriving, and a lot of people left behind in the rural parts of America, they feel threatened economically, culturally, socially and they have no contact with the expert class.” He goes on to say “those of us in the expert class – journalism and academia – have to do a better job…” https://twitter.com/i/status/1336461885324091393 I guess we must add journalists to the enlightened Creative/Expert Class.

Well, Mr. Brooks, I’m somewhat educated, I actually know how to read (on a wide variety of subjects), I understand a bit of math and I occasionally think for myself.

I do NOT feel threatened or deprived by a lack of contact with “experts” like you.
I do NOT need more contact with you or other enlightened members of your arrogant Expert Class.
I do NOT need more direction from Mr. Florida’s amazing Creatives.
I do NOT need your ANTIFA thugs telling me what I’m allowed to think or what I should do.

Friends, let me remind you that this is not an isolated view. In 2016 Michael Bloomberg stated “I could teach anybody, even people in this room, no offense intended, to be a farmer, It's a process. You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn.” He equally insulted factory workers and people in trades… And he said this while he was campaigning for the Presidency.

On Dangerous Ground
Recall… Billionaires, Dictators, Monarchs and Bureaucrats are not credible to the masses. How can they expand their power and control??

When the “Elites” become convinced they are intellectually and morally superior to everyone else it becomes their righteous cause to rage against any perceived injustice (no matter how successful or beneficial society may be). If you wonder why progressives seem so smug and intolerant… understand that they believe they are entitled.

The Elites (who truly believe they are righteous Crusaders) will then convince one (or more) group/class that they are victims of some other contemptible group/class. From there, it is a small step to rationalize retribution and hatred against those who have been identified as GREEDY-STUPID-EVIL.

This was straightforward for the Marxists, the Hitler NAZIs and Mao. In each case, the intellectuals could convince a majority that they were being oppressed by a minority. With strength of numbers retribution (and a transfer of power to the puppet-masters) was rapid and violent. Millions were slaughtered.

A Nation of Victims
It has not be so straightforward in the United States. We have a very large middle-class and it is very difficult to convince prosperous people that they are victims. It has taken decades to desecrate our history, to splinter society into innumerable classes of victims and to even convince members of the middle-class that they are among the oppressors.

I contend that the United States has become a Nation of Victims (tradeMark). I contend that globalists, socialists and Democrats have exploited every perception of inequity to divide us and sow animosity.

Racial Inequity – Demonizing whites with claims of White Privilege
LGBTQ2A – Demonizing heterosexuals and nuclear families
Climate Refugees – (aka Illegal Aliens)
Young vs Old
And many more

Most recently, the President himself is using COVID hysteria to pit whites against whites: “We’ve been patient, but our patience is wearing thin,” Biden said. He went on, “For the vast majority of you who’ve gotten vaccinated, I understand your anger at those who haven’t gotten vaccinated.”

We are at a point where the elite Progressive Urban Socialists (PUSs) feel justified in restricting the rights of free speech if you disagree, restricting your rights to travel or assemble if you don’t follow their enlightened guidelines, restricting your access to healthcare because you deserve to die and suggesting re-education or confinement for the deplorables.

I do not accept that they are intellectually or morally superior.

I believe in free speech.
I believe in freedom of travel and assembly.
I believe that my body (and mind) belong to me and not to the state.
I believe in the 2nd Amendment and that the right of force stems from the individual like every other right.
I believe that I worked very hard for what I achieved and I reject “White Privilege”… though I do believe in “American Privilege”.

I understand that I am a deplorable.

The Great Reset

I have never been one to embrace conspiracy theories. Sure, there are conspiracies… lots and lots of competing conspiracies. But I have never believed there is one to rule them all. Until the Great Reset came out and publicly stated their goals to destroy capitalism and usher in a socialist utopia where you will own nothing and be happy about it.

I'll write more about this in the next post.

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A New Direction - Sustaining Liberty

1/25/2022

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Sustaining Liberty
As an engineer I have been interested in sustainable design, energy efficiency, and the use of recycled and/or durable material for several decades. As an environmentalist, I have been interested in enjoying and preserving natural spaces, particularly forests.

Today, the neoTerra Blog is starting a new direction. Our Constitutional rights and our Republic are under assault from 'democratic' socialists and globalists. It is time to focus on Sustaining Liberty.

Sustaining planet Terra means nothing if we lose our fundamental rights as free people. I do not intend to save trees while losing my rights and dignity as a human being.

Elitism and the Globalist Agenda
Elitism has always existed. Emperors, monarchs, priesthoods, dictators and university intellectuals have always promoted the belief they were entitled to rule over the common people. Often, two (or more) of these groups collaborated to maintain power. For example, monarchies granted religious orders land and wealth and the priesthoods convinced the masses that the monarchy was ordained by GOD.

With few exceptions, this situation prevailed over humanity ever since the rise of agriculture and the establishment of towns and cities (the ancient Greeks and the Roman Republic being two exceptions).

Today, Progressive Elitism is on the rise. This is not due to any superiority of progressive philosophy which is nothing more than fresh rationalism for age-old tyranny. It is funded by globalists who create foundations to hire armies of lobbyists, activists and 'experts' to promote their agenda. I will provide concrete examples in future posts.

Individual, Unalienable Rights
The United States was founded on a simple belief that governments have no natural right to exist. That ALL rights (and all responsibilities) inherently belong to individual human beings. That governments shall be formed by people for their mutual benefit and that those governments shall only have the rights, authorities and powers that the people choose to grant.

Our Declaration of Independence, our Constitution (and its many refinements through the properly enacted Amendments) categorically reject aristocracy and elite rulers.

Our friend, Colin McWay, has written an excellent book on the Constitution. You can find it by clicking on the image.

Furthermore, the United States is NOT a democracy to be governed by mob-rule. It is a Constitutional Republic designed with checks and balances to insure that the rights of ALL individuals are upheld.

I will discuss these topics at length in future posts.

A New Direction - Future Topics
The Progressive Elites have intentionally created a number of boogeymen to induce fear within the population and convince people that only by relinquishing their individual freedoms can Big Brother save them from destruction.

Some of these boogeymen include:

Global scarcity, famine and dog-eat-dog warfare over scraps
Climate Hysteria
Spiraling crime
Pandemics

The globalists have been pushing these topics since the Limits To Growth was published by the elite Club of Rome in the early 1970's. None of their predictions have come true in the past 50 years.

They have succeeded, however, in fostering mass fear. Please watch the following video from The Academy of Ideas for a primer on the intentional creation of fear. When you begin to fear your neighbors more than you fear the government then you are well on the road to serfdom.

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